My Friend's Addiction

“You get this wicked high. You get to where you’re always chasing that high – and you can never get it again.”

“We used to have a nice little community here. Now people are making a big time living off of it, selling cocaine. For a 13, 14 year old, it’s not hard to get cocaine any more.”

….Stacy

Stacy is a drug addict, HIV positive, articulate and she has kept a journal. In this documentary, Stacy opens up completely, revealing her troubled childhood, her life on the skids and her decision to come back home, to her community, to her family. Here, she is not a junkie or an HIV statistic, but a daughter, a lifelong friend, and an aunt who wants to leave behind the right message.

Stacy is filmed both day and night. She talks to the camera, straight and high, reformed and relapsing. As Stacy reads excerpts from her journal and reflects on her life, her honesty is hard to hear. But Stacy wants to share her life and her daily struggles so that young people at risk can see the hard reality of life as a drug-addict. Her clarity will also inform adults social workers, teachers and parents.

Produced in 1998, Released in 2007